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'Wiener Logik', 'Thought and Reality' and 'Some Models for Implicature'
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 4. Meaning as Truth-Conditions
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To know the truth-conditions of a sentence, you must already know the meaning [Dummett]
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 5. Meaning as Verification
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A justificationist theory of meaning leads to the rejection of classical logic [Dummett]
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Verificationism could be realist, if we imagined the verification by a superhuman power [Dummett]
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If truths about the past depend on memories and current evidence, the past will change [Dummett]
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 6. Meaning as Use
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Grice said patterns of use are often semantically irrelevant, because it is a pragmatic matter [Grice, by Glock]
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We could only guess the meanings of 'true' and 'false' when sentences were used [Dummett]
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 7. Meaning Holism / a. Sentence meaning
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Sentences are the primary semantic units, because they can say something [Dummett]
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19. Language / D. Propositions / 1. Propositions
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We can't distinguish a proposition from its content [Dummett]
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19. Language / F. Communication / 5. Pragmatics / b. Implicature
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Grice's maxim of quantity says be sufficiently informative [Grice, by Magidor]
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Grice's maxim of quality says do not assert what you believe to be false [Grice, by Magidor]
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Grice's maxim of manner requires one to be as brief as possible [Grice, by Magidor]
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